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Governing Board Accountability: Competition, Regulation And Accreditation, Judith C. Areen
Governing Board Accountability: Competition, Regulation And Accreditation, Judith C. Areen
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article examines the three primary ways in which the governing boards of American colleges and universities are held to account: (1) competition; (2) regulation, including state nonprofit corporation laws, tax laws, and licensing laws; and (3) accreditation. It begins by tracing how lay (meaning nonfaculty) governing boards became the dominant form of governance in American higher education. It argues that governing boards provide American institutions of higher education with an exceptional degree of autonomy from state control and that, together with the shared governance approach that gives faculties primary responsibility for academic matters, they have been a vital factor …
Comments On Warren Grimes: Transparency In Federal Antitrust Enforcement, Robert Pitofsky
Comments On Warren Grimes: Transparency In Federal Antitrust Enforcement, Robert Pitofsky
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In this review, I will concentrate on the policies and experiences of the Federal Trade Commission - an agency with which I am more familiar than the Department of Justice. Professor Grimes appreciates that FTC disclosure policies provide more information than the Antitrust Division of the DOJ. I will leave it to others to explain why Department of Justice policies, particularly in the area of criminal enforcement, deserve to be different.